Course detail

Accounting

FP-ucePAcad. year: 2016/2017

The subject is focused on the bases and basic principles of accounting, i.e. stress is put on construction of the balance, on changes in balance, on recognition of costs and revenues, on creation of profit/loss and on cash flows in a business entity.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Anna Fedorová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Finances (ÚF)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will understand the basic principles of accounting and interconnection in accounting operations and in financial statements. Students will gain the skills of identification of accounting operations and their influence on the items of financial statements, and skills of preparation of financial statements.

Prerequisites

Basic general knowledge of business economics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course contains two-hours lectures per week that explain basic principles, problems and methodology of the discipline, and two-hours exercises per week promoting the practical knowledge and applications of the subject presented in the lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit:
Credit written test (at the end of the semester). Pass mark 50 %.
Examination:
Written test with closed questions. Pass mark 50 %.
The credit will have a 40 % weighting in the overall course mark while the examination will account for 60 %.

Course curriculum

The course is focused on the fundamentals and basic principles of accountancy in the sense of putting together a balance sheet, changes in the balance sheet, the creation of costs and revenues and producing the profit and loss account.
1. Characteristics of double entry bookkeeping, legal treatment of bookkeeping in the Czech Republic, bookkeeping outputs.
2. Balance sheet, balance sheet changes.
3. Profit and loss account, creation of profit.
4. Fundamentals of bookkeeping, methodological instruments.
5. Financial accounts (characteristics, evaluation and accounting for money, short-term loans and short-term securities)
6. Current assets – inventory (characteristics, valuation, accounting).
7. Clearing relations - receivables (especially trade receivables)
8. Clearing relations - payables (especially trade payables and for employees and shareholders)
9. Fixed assets (acquisition, depreciation, elimination)
10. Equity, long-term outside sources (accounting for profit and long-term loans).
11. Costs and revenues (operational and financial).
12. Closing of accounts.
13. Accountancy audit statements, duty of accounting

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Objective of the subject is to educate the students in the field of basic principles of accounting and in the primary interconnections in financial statements which are the key to understanding of any accounting system.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Student´s participation on seminar is controlled.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK Bachelor's

    branch BAK-EP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Jana Gláserová, Dr.

Syllabus

1. Characteristics of double entry bookkeeping, legal treatment of bookkeeping in the Czech Republic, bookkeeping outputs
2. Balance sheet, balance sheet changes
3. Profit and loss account, creation of profit
4. Fundamentals of bookkeeping, methodological instruments
5. Financial accounts (characteristics, evaluation and accounting for money, short-term loans and short-term securities)
6. Current assets – inventory (characteristics, valuation, accounting).
7. Clearing relations - receivables (especially trade receivables)
8. Clearing relations - payables (especially trade payables and for employees and shareholders)
9. Fixed assets (acquisition, depreciation, elimination)
10. Equity, long-term outside sources (accounting for profit and long-term loans)
11. Costs and revenues (operational and financial)
12. Closing of accounts
13. Accountancy audit statements, duty of accounting units to publish statements

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Pavlína Fialová
Ing. Jana Gláserová, Dr.
Ing. Denisa Doupovcová

Syllabus

1) Introduction to the course. Financial statements.
2) Balance sheet.
3) Profit and loss account.
4) Documenting in accountancy, rules for billing to accounts
5) Types of accounting operation, working procedures in accountancy
6) Accountancy on financial accounts
7) Clearing relations
8) Accounting for inventories
9) Accounting for fixed assets
10) Accounting for equity
11) Cut-off entries, preparation of financial statements
12) Credit test
13) Credit